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Originally Posted by Evil Chris
Pardon me Robbie, but that gathering of business people at the round bar is only there on those particular days due to AVN putting the show on in the first place.
Encouraging people to not get a show badge is doing a disservice to the organizers of the show, who work hard at it.
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Robbie is right. I haven’t missed a show in 8 yrs and I get a lot of business done at every one. That business used to get done on the show floor for the most part, but the last 3-4 yrs Ive taken a 5 min turn on the floor and that’s it. It seems to all get done at the bar / tables / meals these days.
I wouldn’t take it as a personal dig, things are just not the same as they were 8 yrs ago. The show floors will NEVER again be 10% of what they once were and they will continue to get smaller and smaller every year until they disappear all together. The days of spending 200k on a booth to top what you did the year before was a fun time in the history of this business, but its done.
For good or for bad, people look at the shrinking show floor every year and associate it directly with the show’s success. If I was running a show, I'd just accept it for what it is and instead of trying to keep that part of the show alive (an impossible task and a no win situation) and best try to adapt to whats going on now. Organize more interesting smaller events, poker tournaments etc. If I meet someone I don’t know on the show floor, It feels (to me anyway) like its kind of a sad "pitch" zone where you hear the same old crap form people that really dont have much idea what they are doing. But if I take part in a good poker tournament or an interesting event, its much more casual and I feel like I have a chance to connect and bond with people Ive never met before and brainstorm a bit instead of feeling like Im being sold something.
People leave the Vegas show and say “I partied and gambled like crazy, It was a blast”…..People leave the Phx Forum and the Panama summit and say “I got a TON of business done”
